Samstag, 7. August 2010

Die Statue im Garten - statue in the garden

Die "neuen" Möbelchen sind von meiner Cousine ausgeliehen. Sie standen in meiner Puppenstube, die mein Vater gemacht hatte, nachdem ich das Haus an meine beiden Cousinen weitervererbt hatte. Nun ist auch Hannah schon dem Puppenstubenalter entwachsen und ich darf ein paar Fotos mit diesem wertvollen Familienbesitz machen. Meine eigenen Möbel sind leider nicht mehr erhalten (nur noch in meiner Erinnerung).The "new" furniture is borrowed by my cousin. They was in my childhood-dollshouse after I gave it to my cousins. Now even Hannah is too old for playing with it and so I'm allowed to take some fotographs with this treasures of our family. There is no piece left of my own dollshouse furniture (but it exists in my memories).

Die Statue habe ich aus Ton gemacht, im vorherigen Post sieht man mich bei der Arbeit daran. Leider ist sie schon beim Trocknen geplatzt, so dass sie nicht gebrannt wurde.I made the statue from clay, in the previous post you can see me working on it. Unfortunately it is broken while drying, so it couldn't be baked (I wrote burnt before, think baking is better than burning, but in german we say so).

Nachdem die Tonstatue zerbrochen war, habe ich sie noch einmal in Speckstein versucht, aber auch diese brach durch. Sie gefällt mir allerdings so auch.After the clay-statue was broken I tried one in soapstone, but it broke too. But I like it this way too.

Again I must say how much I love your photographs, I love how you play with light. I quite like the broken statue as well! It is the contrast in rough and smooth texture that makes it even more interesting.

Both your statues are great, infact I like yours better than the original, I think it's because yours has a bit more curves :-) And I agree with Josje that the contrast between the rough and the smooth texture in the broken sculpture adds interest. I like the works of Henry Moore and have several times thought of using clay to make something in his style or even attempt to make a copy. But unlike you, I have never gotten around to actually do it.

BLOGGER - AWARDS

I received some awards from my blogger-friends. I'm not a friend of the related rules to follow - and I know most of my close blogfriends think the same.So please don't be sad when I dont spread the award I received.Because I'm very pleased and honored though, I'll at least show it at this point: